The comic as a critical reading of history in the construction of identity and territorial diversity

Abstract

This article approaches a genre little studied in the academic field: comics and historical comics in particular, that is, comics that use history with a capital H as a backdrop to explain and disseminate ideas. We analyse how comic features favour the dissemination of concepts such as historical memory and it is an ideal tool to establish an ideology. In the present case, we are dealing with the comic in the Catalan language that deals with the medieval history of Catalonia with the objective of verifying, on the one hand, the ideological intentionality that is hidden behind the narration and selection of some specific events and characters of Catalan history to divulge a certain idea of territorial and identity construction and, on the other hand, to propose a model for analysing comics both from the literary point of view, from the narrative structures, and from the visual point of view.